When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

I am too sick to lay downthe sidewalks frighten methe whole damned city frightens me, what I will becomewhat I have becomefrightens me.

2There is no greater thing in life than that secret sense of harmony that unites us briefly with the great mysteries of others and allows us to travel alongside them for part of the way.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled).

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

Remember your dreams and fight for them.

I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.